This episode of the series, The First Time I Saw Me, features trans actor Elliot Fletcher, who we adore watching on Freeform's The Fosters. As he talks about growing up without seeing possibilities for himself on screen and in print, he recalls a tumblr post he wrote years ago: "I'm so tired of cis people playing trans characters — I'm gonna do it." And you know what?

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